In sports, times of fractions of a second can mean the difference between first and second place or setting a new world record. When training, it is imperative to know where you stand, and as helpful ...

We’ll always have a soft spot in our hearts for those large, pocket watch-looking things called stopwatches. Whether it’s for trying to get a free pizza from Domino’s or timing laps for your driver at ...

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice, in ...

Simulated swimming race times show a small number of times recorded on quartzite oscillator-based devices are off by margins large enough to determine winners. As the Summer Olympics draw near, the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Back in 1932, one Omega watchmaker took 30 stopwatches from Switzerland to Los Angeles to enable judges at the ...

Football coaches and referees often require digital stopwatches in the practice sessions and in professional matches. These digital stopwatches for football coaches and referees are light in weight ...

Around the globe, some classrooms are using fancy digital handheld devices to let people answer questions. One such example of this hardware is the Smart Response PE. These devices are largely useless ...

Time stopped 200 years ago … then it was restarted, stopped again, and reset. No, this isn't some obscure retrospective application of relativity, we're talking about the invention of the stopwatch.

Digital stopwatches can make rounding errors of up to 0.11 seconds, which could be enough to change the winner of close races. Although the devices record time extremely accurately internally, they ...

Some of the same technology found on advanced running watches is now available on inexpensive models, which means there’s a lot of variety in the features and functionality you can get on a sub-$100 ...